Question 1: How to make stop-motion animation?

I don’t have the download link, but I have made a freeze frame.

The method is actually really simple, but to do it well depends on your technique.

The big process is like this: script-storyboard-production-post-production. The division of labor must be clear. There must be a director. If there is a disagreement, everything must be listened to by the director.

When we did it, the conditions were relatively simple, just a digital camera (with higher pixels) and a tripod.

There must be something to hold the camera in place, otherwise the picture will be too shaken.

Two shots per second, 12 frames per second, that’s about it.

And lighting is also very important.

After production, it’s post-production, and we use Adobe Premiere.

You should have heard of this software, and then you can add special effects, subtitles and so on.

There must be someone who knows something about it in the later stage, otherwise the effect will not be achieved and the previous steps will be in vain.

In general, it is creativity, lens, post-production, and cooperation between you that can produce a good animation, but you really need to take a lot of photos.

When you are unsure, let the director decide. He is the one among you who knows best what effect you want to create.

I hope this helps you, and you will know how to do it when you actually do it.

Show it to me when it's done. Haha.

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Hope it will be adopted. Question 2: The production process of stop-motion animation. Before the popularization of digital special effects, many special effects shots in movies were shot in a frame-by-frame manner.

There are also many cartoons that are actually stop-motion animations, such as "Cao Chong Weighs the Elephant", "Afanti" and "Ma Liang". Since traditional stop-motion animations are mostly shot frame by frame with film cameras, the cost and production difficulty are unimaginable for ordinary people.

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Nowadays, the development of digital technology makes it possible to shoot stop-motion animation works with quite good picture quality using home DC or DV, so more and more people are beginning to produce stop-motion animation works by themselves.

DV: The resolution of a single frame is not as high as that of DC, but because it uses FireWire to connect directly to the computer and capture the picture at any time through software, it is more intuitive to watch, easier to operate, and can fully meet the quality requirements of TV broadcasts.

DC: The image quality is quite good and can completely surpass the quality of TV broadcasts.

However, since you have to shoot the material and then import it into the computer to clearly see the shooting results, the operation is relatively troublesome.

Stop-motion animation often first requires a distinct character image, which can be a person, an animal, an object, or of course, a character you have imagined.

But if you plan to create a character, choosing the appropriate tools and materials is key to ensuring smooth production and filming.

The familiar clay, rubber, silicone, polymer clay, as well as plaster, resin clay, etc. can be used as the main materials for making characters.

Aluminum wire, acrylic, model paint, sculpture knife and other tools are also commonly used materials in the process of making characters.

The skeleton, or joints, are the next most important part of the character.

Except for some plasticine characters that are very small or require deformation, all characters require skeleton support.

After long-term practice, there are three commonly used skeletons: metal wire skeletons, ball joint skeletons and hybrid skeletons using the above two types of joints.

The spherical skeleton is the most professional and very expensive, so only professional animation companies will use it.

Metal wires generally use pure aluminum wires that are extremely flexible and not easy to age and break.

It is completely inelastic, making it ideal for character joints, and is usually used by twisting it into two strands to get the desired strength.

The legs can use thicker aluminum wire to support the weight of the clay and prevent it from bending.

The source of aluminum wire can be stripped from aluminum wires with a cross-sectional area of ??1.0-2.5 square millimeters on the market.

Your character must have an activity space, which can be your bedroom or desk.

But in more demanding works, scenes often need to be built.

Scene building is like making a scaled-down sandbox.

In the production of stop-motion animation, the scene will have many possibilities: it may be realistic, it may be abstract, it may have a tasteful roughness, it may be a very detailed and luxurious scene.

Here we created an "asteroid surface" that is very small in actual scale. A large number of foam plastics and plasticine formed the scene. The dim main light gave the scene a mysterious atmosphere.

A successful lighting arrangement can accurately hint at time and create an atmosphere. Due to the particularity of animated films, lighting can be more exaggerated and colorful than live-action films.

Almost any stable light source can be used, except flickering fluorescent lights.

The post-production of stop-motion animation is exactly the same as traditional animation: the shot sequences are imported into the computer, combined into video clips in the software, and then the speed is adjusted on the timeline.

For stop-motion animation, 2 beats (12 frames per second) or 3 beats (8 frames per second) are usually enough.

After each shot is adjusted individually, all shots are imported together for final editing.

The special effects synthesis part is completely completed in the computer. Commonly used methods include blue screen keying, motion blur, hand-drawn special effects and erasing supports, etc.

Keying is a very traditional stunt where you first photograph an object in a solid color (usually blue or green).

Then shoot the background you need, then stack the two pictures together, clear the solid color background, and finally get the composite picture. This is also called chroma key technology.

Today's PCs can complete this work, and commonly used video editing software such as Premiere has this function.